[YouTube] youtube-dl terminates/crashes with KeyError: u'preference'

[TheBoroer]

See below.

YouTube URL has this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2Z2mhIkQ8
Command I ran: ./youtube-dl -g -s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2Z2mhIkQ8 --verbose

Output:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-g', '-s', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2Z2mhIkQ8', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.01.05
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Linux-3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-centos-6.5-Final
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 0.6.5, ffprobe 0.6.5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "./youtube-link/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 361, in main
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 351, in _real_main
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1165, in download
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 592, in extract_info
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 245, in extract
  File "./youtube-link/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1049, in _real_extract
KeyError: u'preference'

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I believe this bug to be fixed in youtube-dl 2015.01.05.1. See our FAQ if you need help updating.

[TheBoroer]

Great! I've updated and can confirm it's fixed! Thanks!